Louis Jordan Quotes
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
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I mostly listen to things that are so different because there's something so intriguing about trying to understand where someone is coming from.
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I see characters lying all the time in a lot of Hollywood movies. They can't do this because it would affect the movie this way or that or this demographic might not like it. To me a character can't do anything good or bad, they can only do something that's true or not.
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I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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The only people who make love all the time are liars.
